Colin Lindeman
David Askov
Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response I
Monday March 5, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
In 2011, over 9 million people in Southeast Asia were affected by what were called the worst floods in more than 50 years. However, Vietnam and other countries in the region suffer economic and human losses every year as a result of flooding. Under funding from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) deployed VinAWARE, a web-based early warning and decision support system which was specifically designed for Vietnam, at the beginning of the 2011 storm season. The system was intended for use at national and provincial levels and the pilot focused on the coastal provinces of central Vietnam. This presentation will illustrate how dynamic meteorological data and model outputs were transformed into customized flood hazard notifications and meaningful information products used to support disaster management decision making. VinAWARE, like PDC’s flagship technology DisasterAWARE, enables users to analyze, integrate and share hazard information and other relevant data such as infrastructure and population through a web-based interface.
Showing posts with label emergency response. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergency response. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
March 11th 2011 Japan/Hawaii Tsunami Response and Early Warning using PDC's DisasterAWARE
John Livengood
Lara Payne
Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response I
Monday March 5, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
On March 11th 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the 5 most powerful in the world, triggered a destructive tsunami along the coast Japan, propagating across the Pacific from Alaska to Chile. Approximate wave heights ranged from 5-14 meters in Japan with some reports significantly higher in Iwate Prefecture, Hawaii was inundated by 1-3 meter waves. This presentation will look at how the Pacific Disaster Center's DisasterAWARE platform was utilized to support early warning, evacuations, and the on-going response to the disaster in both Japan and Hawaii. DisasterAWARE, PDC's web-based decision support system, continually listens to data sources for hazard warnings around the world, providing real-time, multi-hazard monitoring, risk, and exposure estimates. The platform then disseminates warnings through the use of the internet, social media tools, and smart phones to ensure the public and disaster management professionals are informed of the hazards and potential impacts.
Lara Payne
Pacific Disaster Center, Kihei, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response I
Monday March 5, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
On March 11th 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the 5 most powerful in the world, triggered a destructive tsunami along the coast Japan, propagating across the Pacific from Alaska to Chile. Approximate wave heights ranged from 5-14 meters in Japan with some reports significantly higher in Iwate Prefecture, Hawaii was inundated by 1-3 meter waves. This presentation will look at how the Pacific Disaster Center's DisasterAWARE platform was utilized to support early warning, evacuations, and the on-going response to the disaster in both Japan and Hawaii. DisasterAWARE, PDC's web-based decision support system, continually listens to data sources for hazard warnings around the world, providing real-time, multi-hazard monitoring, risk, and exposure estimates. The platform then disseminates warnings through the use of the internet, social media tools, and smart phones to ensure the public and disaster management professionals are informed of the hazards and potential impacts.
Geospatially Enabled Solutions for ‘All Hazards' Incident Management
Robert H. Scott, III, P.E.
Intergraph Corporation, Reston, VA
Disaster Management and Emergency Response II
Monday March 5, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Having a clear picture of unfolding situations on the ground is a vital element in determining fast and effective responses to major emergency incidents. However, during the last decade significant natural disaster and terrorism events have revealed serious deficiencies in the timely provision and sharing of critical information. Operational complexity combined with the shear volume and diversity of data sources and types, mean key information is often not available when it is most needed to inform decision making and improve outcomes.
Technology adoption requires an approach that integrates various systems to work together to provide the user agencies with a coherent solution. By utilising a geospatial computer-aided dispatch system as an integration platform, alarms, sensors, cameras and video feeds can be fused with operational data to form systems to meet evolving ‘all hazards' mitigation needs. This presentation will illustrate some of the key examples of these requirements and how geospatial technology is being deployed in anti-terrorism force protection, major event security, transportation security, and the protection key national infrastructure.
Intergraph Corporation, Reston, VA
Disaster Management and Emergency Response II
Monday March 5, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Having a clear picture of unfolding situations on the ground is a vital element in determining fast and effective responses to major emergency incidents. However, during the last decade significant natural disaster and terrorism events have revealed serious deficiencies in the timely provision and sharing of critical information. Operational complexity combined with the shear volume and diversity of data sources and types, mean key information is often not available when it is most needed to inform decision making and improve outcomes.
Technology adoption requires an approach that integrates various systems to work together to provide the user agencies with a coherent solution. By utilising a geospatial computer-aided dispatch system as an integration platform, alarms, sensors, cameras and video feeds can be fused with operational data to form systems to meet evolving ‘all hazards' mitigation needs. This presentation will illustrate some of the key examples of these requirements and how geospatial technology is being deployed in anti-terrorism force protection, major event security, transportation security, and the protection key national infrastructure.
Developing Frameworks for Emergency Management web-based GIS Applications
Jim Correll
Karen Volarich
Ardent Management Consulting, Inc. and Department of Homeland Security, Reston, VA and Washington DC
Disaster Management and Emergency Response II
Monday March 5, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Emergency Management web-based GIS applications require flexibility for adaptation to constantly changing requirements during an emergency event. Designing and building a modular framework system that addresses common functionality across environments and customized to specific user needs can speed development and deployment of applications, as well as, modifying applications without downtime or significant user training. Using case studies at the federal level with customers such as the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the Social Security Administration, we will demonstrate how this concept of a "common approach" can be implemented. Examples include: How to leverage application level permissions using Active Directory, building and integrating geoprocessing services specifically designed for emergency management, and common GIS functionality such as query, add layers, and batch geocoding on the fly.
Karen Volarich
Ardent Management Consulting, Inc. and Department of Homeland Security, Reston, VA and Washington DC
Disaster Management and Emergency Response II
Monday March 5, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Emergency Management web-based GIS applications require flexibility for adaptation to constantly changing requirements during an emergency event. Designing and building a modular framework system that addresses common functionality across environments and customized to specific user needs can speed development and deployment of applications, as well as, modifying applications without downtime or significant user training. Using case studies at the federal level with customers such as the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the Social Security Administration, we will demonstrate how this concept of a "common approach" can be implemented. Examples include: How to leverage application level permissions using Active Directory, building and integrating geoprocessing services specifically designed for emergency management, and common GIS functionality such as query, add layers, and batch geocoding on the fly.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Disaster Management and Emergency Response Special Interest Group (SIG)
All Invited
Lunchtime Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - noon to 1:30 pm
Join the Disaster Management and Emergency Response SIG lunch group for a free-flowing discussion of GIS and public safety, disaster management, emergency response and more.
Lunchtime Special Interest Group Meeting
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - noon to 1:30 pm
Join the Disaster Management and Emergency Response SIG lunch group for a free-flowing discussion of GIS and public safety, disaster management, emergency response and more.
The Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system - A Situational Awareness Viewer for Emergency Management
Jon Hodge
Susan Vogt
City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Honolulu faces a number of significant emergency management events each year: floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires - and less frequently, large special events, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Consequently, a great deal of thought and effort has gone into planning and emergency response preparedness. The City was an early adopter of GIS and has developed a comprehensive GIS for the city to support emergency operations, including the development of critical GIS layers, such as evacuation zones, flood zones, and critical infrastructure locations.
Traditionally, the standard operating procedures for City emergency managers included limited utilization of GIS tools and technology. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management (DEM) received a grant for Geospatial Technology Enhancements (GTE) to improve emergency planning, response, and operations to more fully leverage existing City GIS data and systems. The project began in June of 2010. The goal was to install an advanced situational awareness viewer technology that supports the planning activities and emergency response operations that occur in the DEM Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The outcome was the deployment of the Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system. The system was put to the test during the recent APEC summit.
Susan Vogt
City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Honolulu faces a number of significant emergency management events each year: floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires - and less frequently, large special events, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Consequently, a great deal of thought and effort has gone into planning and emergency response preparedness. The City was an early adopter of GIS and has developed a comprehensive GIS for the city to support emergency operations, including the development of critical GIS layers, such as evacuation zones, flood zones, and critical infrastructure locations.
Traditionally, the standard operating procedures for City emergency managers included limited utilization of GIS tools and technology. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management (DEM) received a grant for Geospatial Technology Enhancements (GTE) to improve emergency planning, response, and operations to more fully leverage existing City GIS data and systems. The project began in June of 2010. The goal was to install an advanced situational awareness viewer technology that supports the planning activities and emergency response operations that occur in the DEM Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The outcome was the deployment of the Honolulu Unified Assessment (HONUA) system. The system was put to the test during the recent APEC summit.
MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface): A Mobile Situational Awareness System for Emergency and Disaster Response
David Takeyama
Andrew Mizon
Oceanit, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Events immediately following a natural disaster are often chaotic and frenzied as time and resources need to be quickly allocated and dispatched to areas hit the hardest. An assessment of damage needs to be gathered to accurately document the magnitude and impact of an event, as well as to verify if supplemental assistance is required. Oceanit's MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface) system is a platform technology developed for the Hawaii State Civil Defense that enables two-way communication of information so that better decision-making can take place after a disaster.
MERCI includes a mobile data collection app enabling responders to collect multiple data types (text, photo, video, GPS) using a mobile handheld device such as an iPhone or iPad2. FEMA-based damage assessment forms can be completed in the field while emergency managers back at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) have a geospatial view with a real-time dollar value of total damage. Important points of interest (POI's) such as historical events can be pushed to the mobile device's map view to provide the early responder with field-level situational awareness so that they are not going into a new operational environment ‘blind.' Information is securely uploaded to the EOC where it can be analyzed, collated, and queried, enabling decision-makers to quickly identify the worst affected areas, damage trends, disruptions in public services, and to prioritize recovery activities.
Andrew Mizon
Oceanit, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Emergency Response III
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 1:30 to 2:45 pm
Events immediately following a natural disaster are often chaotic and frenzied as time and resources need to be quickly allocated and dispatched to areas hit the hardest. An assessment of damage needs to be gathered to accurately document the magnitude and impact of an event, as well as to verify if supplemental assistance is required. Oceanit's MERCI (Mobile Emergency Response and Command Interface) system is a platform technology developed for the Hawaii State Civil Defense that enables two-way communication of information so that better decision-making can take place after a disaster.
MERCI includes a mobile data collection app enabling responders to collect multiple data types (text, photo, video, GPS) using a mobile handheld device such as an iPhone or iPad2. FEMA-based damage assessment forms can be completed in the field while emergency managers back at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) have a geospatial view with a real-time dollar value of total damage. Important points of interest (POI's) such as historical events can be pushed to the mobile device's map view to provide the early responder with field-level situational awareness so that they are not going into a new operational environment ‘blind.' Information is securely uploaded to the EOC where it can be analyzed, collated, and queried, enabling decision-makers to quickly identify the worst affected areas, damage trends, disruptions in public services, and to prioritize recovery activities.
Bringing Internet Data Content into GIS Applications
Rod Low
Esri, Honolulu, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
GIS applications, whether they are hosted on a desktop or an Internet server, can pull data content from the Internet using links, feeds and services. GeoRSS is a standard for feeds in which the URL points to an XML file with geospatial tags. For example, by reading a feed that contains point coordinates, a GIS application can track moving objects. Services come in many formats that can be "mashed-up" in GIS applications. Beyond map and image services, GIS applications can take advantage of services specifically designed to query features, locate addresses, create travel routes, run geospatial models (geoprocessing), and more. This presentation will draw examples from the City and County of Honolulu's HONUA system for emergency management which uses a combination of links, feeds and services to provide a common operating picture that updates in real-time.
Esri, Honolulu, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
GIS applications, whether they are hosted on a desktop or an Internet server, can pull data content from the Internet using links, feeds and services. GeoRSS is a standard for feeds in which the URL points to an XML file with geospatial tags. For example, by reading a feed that contains point coordinates, a GIS application can track moving objects. Services come in many formats that can be "mashed-up" in GIS applications. Beyond map and image services, GIS applications can take advantage of services specifically designed to query features, locate addresses, create travel routes, run geospatial models (geoprocessing), and more. This presentation will draw examples from the City and County of Honolulu's HONUA system for emergency management which uses a combination of links, feeds and services to provide a common operating picture that updates in real-time.
Social Media Mapping: Unstructured Data Indexing & Geospatial Search
Harley Parks
Jerry Giles
Todd Hall
Will Yipp
Tim Gramp
PACOM PWC APAN, Pearl Harbor, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
All Partners Access Network (APAN) is a social media website (https://community.apan.org) for information sharing and collaboration between U.S. Military, U.S. Interagency, foreign military, international organizations (IOs), nongovernment organizations (NGOs), medical community, and civilian authorities. APAN augments the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) responsibility for the Department of Defense (DOD) Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) in support of all Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and mission partners in the respective Area of Responsibility (AOR).
During the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts and International response to 2011 Japan Disaster, APAN demonstrates an open and secure network capability supporting critical humanitarian missions, exercises, and operations in need of collecting, storing, creating and distributing geospatial incident awareness and assessment information. APAN clients establish profiles, join online communities, write blogs, participate in forums, post/view media, schedule events, glean knowledge in wikis, and find information through multi-faceted search capability.
The APAN GIS provides the geographic context for users, groups, blogs, forums, media, calendars, wikis, and search engines. APAN's GIS strategy embraces security policies, harvest unstructured geographic data sources, utilize crowd sourcing, establish partnerships, and propose strategic directions while supporting daily operations. The geospatial applications range from venue planning, routing, capability profiles, resource distributions, event and staging locations, human impacts and response assessment, to real-time location updates. APAN's social media and GIS services use the internet and mobile technologies to leverage a unique opportunity to meet both Open Government and information security concerns.
Jerry Giles
Todd Hall
Will Yipp
Tim Gramp
PACOM PWC APAN, Pearl Harbor, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
All Partners Access Network (APAN) is a social media website (https://community.apan.org) for information sharing and collaboration between U.S. Military, U.S. Interagency, foreign military, international organizations (IOs), nongovernment organizations (NGOs), medical community, and civilian authorities. APAN augments the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) responsibility for the Department of Defense (DOD) Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) in support of all Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and mission partners in the respective Area of Responsibility (AOR).
During the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts and International response to 2011 Japan Disaster, APAN demonstrates an open and secure network capability supporting critical humanitarian missions, exercises, and operations in need of collecting, storing, creating and distributing geospatial incident awareness and assessment information. APAN clients establish profiles, join online communities, write blogs, participate in forums, post/view media, schedule events, glean knowledge in wikis, and find information through multi-faceted search capability.
The APAN GIS provides the geographic context for users, groups, blogs, forums, media, calendars, wikis, and search engines. APAN's GIS strategy embraces security policies, harvest unstructured geographic data sources, utilize crowd sourcing, establish partnerships, and propose strategic directions while supporting daily operations. The geospatial applications range from venue planning, routing, capability profiles, resource distributions, event and staging locations, human impacts and response assessment, to real-time location updates. APAN's social media and GIS services use the internet and mobile technologies to leverage a unique opportunity to meet both Open Government and information security concerns.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Imagery and Crisis Response: The right data, the right use, the right user, the right time
Tara (Byrnes) Cordyack
GeoEye
Imagery Updates
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The only constant in our world is change. Capturing and monitoring that change becomes an important part of response and recovery from disasters and crisis. GeoEye imagery services enable first responders and other stakeholders to make quick and critical decisions that save lives, time and money.
GeoEye
Imagery Updates
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The only constant in our world is change. Capturing and monitoring that change becomes an important part of response and recovery from disasters and crisis. GeoEye imagery services enable first responders and other stakeholders to make quick and critical decisions that save lives, time and money.
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